The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-11-03
VOL. 20.
DEFENSE OF YOUNG MIN.
DIVINE SERVICES IN THE BROOK YIN
TABERNACLE.

DIVINE SERVICES IN THE BROOKLYN
TABERNACLE.
DT. TalInages's Advice to Those A out
Starting in Life-No Way to Gen sine
Success Except Through Toll Eitht of
Head Hand.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 30.--Six thous and
people sitting and standing in the Pr. ok
lyn Tabernacle, and all the adjoining 70 0ras
packed, and people turned away! Such
was the scene today. The congrega ion
sang:
Awake, my SOUL stretch every nerve,
And press with vgor on.
The Rev. 7. De Witt Talmage, D. D.,
preached on the subject, ''Defense OF
Young Men," and took bis text from II
Kings vi, II: ''And the Lord opened the
eyes of the young man." He said
One morning i'll Dothan young tleo-
logical student was scared by fin IN;
himself and Elisha, the prophet, uoou
whom he waited, surrounded by a v ole
army of enemies. But venerable L ha
was not scared at all. because he saw tIie
mountains full of defense for him. il
ChariOts made out of fire, wheels of &C.
dashboard of fire, and cushions Of re
GraWn by horses with nostrls of fire. and
name of fire, and launches of fire ana
LoOfs of fre-a supernatural appear nee
that could not be seen with the mai .ral
eye So the old minister prayed that the
young minister might see them also, and
the prayer was answered, and the Lord
opened the eyes of the youug man an1 ha
also saw the fiery procession, lool ing
somewhat, L suppose, like the Adilon-
daCks or the Alleghanies in this autunnal
resplendence.
Many young men, standing among the
most tremendous realities, have their yes
half shut or entirely closed. May God
grant that my sermon may open wide
Your eyes to your safety, your opportu-
MY and your destiny.
a mighty defense for a young man il
good home. Some of my hearers look
back with tender satisfaction to their
early home. 1t may have been rude and
rustic, hidden among the hills, and ar5hi-
tecU or upholsterer never planned or
adorned it. But all the fresco on princeiy
walls never looked so entcing to you as
those rough bewn rafters. You can
think of no park or arbor of trees planted
ais the plain brook that ran in front OF the
OH farm house and sang under the weep
ing willows No barred gateway, adorned
with statue of bronze, and swung open
by Obsequious porter i'll full dress, has
half the glory of the swing gate. Many
of you have a second dwelling place, your
adopted home, that also is sacred forever.
There you built the first family altar.
There your children were born. All
ti'ose trees you planted. That roonl ij
4solemn, because once in it, over the no
pillow, Tapped the wing Of death. Under
lhat roof you expect when your work j.
done to lie down and die. You try with
many words to tell the excellency Of tha
place, but you fail. There is only one
word in the language that can describe
p your meaning. 1t is home.
Now, | declare it, that young man i
comparatively safe who goes out into the
world with a charm like this upon HIM.
The memory OF parental solicitude,
watching, planning and praying, will be
To him a shield and shelter. l never
knew a man faithful both to his e. rly
and adopted home, who at the same time
was given over to any gross form of lis
sipatiOn or wiCkedness. He who sc s1S
his enjoyment chiefly from outside asso-
citation, rather than from the more a. liet
and unpresuming pleasures of which l
lave spoken, may be suspected to be OH
the broad road 10 ruin. Absalom de
spised his fathers house, and you know
his history of sin and his death of shame.
If you seem unnecessarily isolated from
your kindred and former associate, il
there not some room that you can cali
your own? Into it gather books, and
pictures, and a harp. Have q port ait
over the mantel. Make ungodly mirth
stand back from the threshold. Coi.se-
crate some spot with the knee OF prayer.
by the memory of other days, fathers
counsel, and a mothers love, and sis
ter s confidence, call it home.
Another defense for a young man is
Industrious habit. Many young men, in
starting upon life in this age, except to
make their way through the world by the
use of their wits rather than the tot OF
their hands. A child now goes to the city
and fails twice before he is as old as his
father was when he first saw the spires
of the great town. Sitting in some Office,
rented at $1,000 year, he is waiting for
the bank to declare its dividend, or goes
into the market expecting before nigh to
be made rich by the rushing up of The
stocks. But luck seemed SO dull he re-
solved on some other tack. Perhaps he
borrowed from his employers money
drawer, and forgets to put it back. or for
merely the purpose of improving his ZEN
manship makes a copyplate of rer
chants signature. Never mind, all is
right in trade. In some dark night there
- l1rs,
syell's Island or of Sing Sing, but it soon
vanishes. In a short time he will be
ready to retire from the busy world, and
a,nid his hocks and herds culture the do
mestic virtues. Then those young rIen
who once were his schoolmates, and iu ew
no better than to engage in honest work.
will come with their OK teams to draw
MIN logs, and with their hard hands help
heave up his castle. This is no fancy
picture 1t is every day life. ] should
not wonder if there were some rol ten
beams in that beautiful palace, / should
not wonder if dire sicknesses should snite
through the young man, or if God should
pour into his cup of life a draught that
would thrill him with unbearable agony.
/ should not wonder if his children should
become TO him living curse, making his
home pest and disgrace. l should not
wonder if he goes to miserable grave,
and beyond it into the gnashipg of teeth.
The way of the ungodly shall perish.
My young friends, there is no way to
genuine success, except through toll
either of the head or hand. At the battle
of Crecy in 1916, the Prince of Wales,
finding himself heavily pressed by the
enemy, sent word to his father for help.
The father, watching the battle from a
windmill, and seeing that his son was not
wounded and could gain the day if he
would, sent word: ''fJo, ] will not come.
Let the boy win his spurs, for if God
viii desire that this day be his with all